1. Cognitive Science Is Not Cognitive Psychology

2. The Dilemma of Mental Causality

Mental States as Higher Level Properties
Privileged Regularities and Ceteris Paribus Clauses
Screening off Causes
Ignoring the Realism/Antirealism Debate

3. Hierarchies in the Brain

The Neuron
The Methodological Individualism/Anti-Individualism Debate
Hierarchies in Neuroscience
"Privileged" Causality in Neuroscience
Explanation in Cognitive Science

4. Computationalism and Functional Analysis: A Pragmatic Approach

Formal Accounts of Computationalism
Computational Satisfaction and True Computation
Functionalism and Functional Analysis
Philosophical Functionalism
An Example
The Function/Structure Distinction

5. Reductionism in the Cognitive Sciences

Reductionism in Philosophy of Mind
Arguments against Reductionism
Cognitive Theories of Emotion: A Test Case
Explanatory Extension

6. The Dual Memory Hypothesis and the Structure of Interdisciplinary Theories

Developmental Studies for a Dual Processing System
The Distinction between Implicit and Explicit Memory
Neural Evidence for the Dual Memory Hypothesis
The Theoretical Framework
"Two-Part" Interdisciplinary Theories
Putting It All Together

7. Interdisciplinary Theories and Bridge Sciences: The Case of Event Related Potentials

The Challenge
ERPs
The Timing of Priming
Bridge Sciences

Appendix: Cognitive Science and the Semantic View

Notes

References

Index